Thanks, Rohit.
I'm happy to help you where needed, as well as distribute across the ASF
channels as well.
A quote from the PMC Chair would be fantastic, as members of the press love to
have someone to quote.
Please remember that if this is a CloudStack (TLP)-originating announcement, we
should use the "Project Announcement" format [1] vs. the "ASF Announcement"
format [2], so this would impact which boilerplate we would be using ("About
Apache CloudStack" vs. "About The Apache Software Foundation").
A few days ago I was thinking about CloudStack and said aloud: "Cloud Today"
--as in "fastest to Cloud"--as a possible (informal) tagline. Perhaps this
might be considered as a message to underscore in our announcements. Or Giles's
"It Just Works" campaign; we should keep working it :^)
Cheers & chat soon,
Sally
[1]
http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/11/11/681958/10107518/en/The-Apache-CloudStack-Project-Announces-Apache-tm-CloudMonkey-tm-v5-3-0.html
[2]
http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/12/09/689680/10111490/en/The-Apache-Software-Foundation-Announces-Apache-tm-MetaModel-tm-as-a-Top-Level-Project.html
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________________________________
From: Rohit Yadav <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 December 2014, 9:12
Subject: [DISCUSS] Announcement draft for 4.3.2
Hi all,
CloudStack 4.3.2 passed this morning and the release artifacts and
release notes have been published now. The mirrors that I've tried so
far have cached-up already. Please review the draft for the announcements :)
I understand that it's holiday season now so I don't mind doing this
after the new year's. I reused 4.3.0's announcement by Chip for this.
We need a quote from PMC on this as well? Thanks.
#### DRAFT STARTS ####
Announcing Apache CloudStack 4.3.2
<DATE>
Flexible, scalable, Open Source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) used
by organizations such as Zynga, Datapipe, and ISWest, among others, for
creating, managing, and deploying public, private, and hybrid Cloud
Computing environments
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers,
stewards, and incubators of more than 170
Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache CloudStack
4.3.2, the latest 4.3 based bugfix release of the CloudStack cloud
orchestration platform.
Apache CloudStack is an integrated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
software platform that allows users to build feature-rich public,
private, and hybrid cloud environments. CloudStack includes an intuitive
user interface and rich APIs for managing the compute, networking,
software, and storage infrastructure resources. CloudStack became an
Apache Top-level Project (TLP) in March 2013. "<Stick a quote?>" said
<PMC name>, <PMC/VP> of Apache
CloudStack.
Under The Hood
CloudStack v4.3.2 is the latest 4.3 based bugfix release from the 4.x
line which first released on November 6, 2012. This bugfix release
includes more than 100 bugfixes since the last 4.3.1 bugfix release.
This bugfix release is based on the major 4.3 release that had following
noteworthy features:
- Support for Microsoft Hyper-V - Apache CloudStack can now manage Hyper-V
hypervisors in addition to KVM, XenServer, VMware, LXC, and Bare Metal
- Juniper OpenContrail integration - OpenContrail is a software defined
networking controller from Juniper that CloudStack now integrates with
to provide SDN services
- SSL Termination support for guest VMs - Apache CloudStack can configure
and manage SSL termination in certain load balancer devices
- Palo Alto Firewall integration - Apache CloudStack can now manage and
configure Palo Alto firewalls
- Remote access VPN for VPC networks - CloudStack's remote access VPN is
now available for Virtual Private Cloud networks
- Site to Site VPN between VRs - CloudStack now allows site-to-site VPN
connectivity to it's virtual routing devices. This permits your cloud
computing environment to appear as a natural extension of your local
network, or for you to easily interconnect multiple environments
- VXLAN support expansion to include KVM - CloudStack's support for
integrating VXLAN, the network virtualization technology that attempts
to ameliorate scalability problems with traditional networking
- SolidFire plugin extension to support KVM and hypervisor snapshots for
XenServer and ESX - SolidFire provides guaranteed Storage Quality of
Service at the Virtual Machine level
- Dynamic Compute offering - CloudStack now has the ability to dynamically
scale the resources assigned to a running virtual machine instance for
those hypervisors which support it
Downloads and Documentation
The official source code for the 4.3.2 release, as well as individual
contributors' convenience binaries, can be downloaded from the Apache
CloudStack downloads page at http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html
The CloudStack 4.3.2 release includes over 100 bugfixes since 4.3.1
release. A full list of corrected issues and upgrade instructions are
available in the Release Notes
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-notes/en/4.3.2/
Official installation, administration, and API documentation for each
release is available at http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/
Apache CloudStack in Action
Availability and Oversight
As with all Apache products, Apache CloudStack 4.3.2 is released under
the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of
active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC)
guides the Project’s day-to-day operations, including community
development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become
involved with Apache CloudStack, visit http://cloudstack.apache.org/
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one
hundred and seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP
Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's
meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 400 individual
Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely
available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users
worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the
Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing
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### DRAFT ENDS ###
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Regards,
Rohit Yadav
Software Architect, ShapeBlue
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